The Process

When a person or animal is mummified, many important things happen to take care of their body.

- When we mummify a person, the body first goes to a funeral home to have a funeral. If it is an animal, the body goes to Summum.

- After the funeral, the body comes to Summum in Salt Lake City, Utah. Then we start the special ceremonies of Mummification and Transference.

- The body is given a bath.

- The internal organs are removed from the body. They are cleaned and put back into the body. The body is left open so the organs will receive more treatment.

- The body is put in a special bath called a baptismal font. It is filled with a special liquid that preserves the body. It looks like water, but it's really not. The liquid covers the entire body. The body stays in the tank real long so that the liquid soaks into the body. See it.

- The body is removed from the tank. Then it is cleaned again and covered with a lotion.